Date:  Mon, 13 Feb 1995 23:08:31 EST

From:  Brad Grissom <BGRISSOM[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UKCC.UKY.EDU>

Subject: Re: pickle- low party



>Last week I saw an exhibition of Dorothea Lange photographs at

>at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Included was one of a

>handlettered sign on a telephone pole in Pittsboro, N.C.

>It was a general invitation to a "pickle-/low party" (hyphen

>before linebreak), and couples would be charged fifteen cents.

>I can see possibilities in low life and getting pickled, but

>that is just speculation. I haven't gotten anywhere with the

>apparent dictionaries. Anybody know what it is? Curiosity.

>

>Joseph Jones    jjones[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]unixg.ubc.ca

>University of British Columbia Library



No help here, but an odd coincidence that might be related: I was

just watching a dramatization of an Ed McClanahan short story ("The

Congress of Wonders"). In 1944, a young boy confronts a carnival

sideshow shill with her fakeries, and she says in exasperation,

"You wanna be told the goddam truth, don't come to a goddam pickle

punk show." I'm almost certain that's what I heard -- pickle, not

nickel.



Brad Grissom

bgrissom[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ukcc.uky.edu